Other stones, poems, walks and photo opportunities are available in the Calder Valley.

I know it was cold, I was out in it take the photo.

No poem, but another walk (or near run!) to get up for another slightly larger stone in the Calder Valley this evening. Didn't get up there in time to catch the light as I'd wanted, but took a few shots anyway as I needed to catch my breath before walking back down.

No poem, but another walk (or near run!) to get up for another slightly larger stone in the Calder Valley this evening. Didn't get up there in time to catch the light as I'd wanted, but took a few shots anyway as I needed to catch my breath before walking back down.

No poem, but another walk (or near run!) to get up for another slightly larger stone in the Calder Valley this evening. Didn't get up there in time to catch the light as I'd wanted, but took a few shots anyway as I needed to catch my breath before walking back down.

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

Depending on the halo being light or shadow you can use dodge or burn to help balance it, though that would be out of bounds for our comp (I think).

One to play around with when I get a bit of knowledge. I've acquired a copy of Photoshop CS2 as Adobe now seem to allow you to download it FOC as it's pretty out of date. I've also (subject to it getting here) bought a 2nd hand book about CS2 on the advice of someone at our local phoo group, which has cost me a whole £2.81 including p&p. Once it arrives, I can start teaching myself....

As for the editing, I wasn't going to enter it anyway, as I don't think it's as good as the one of Churn Milk Joan! I posted it on here with reference to the other Calderdale landmarks, etc comment from longboard.

One to play around with when I get a bit of knowledge. I've acquired a copy of Photoshop CS2 as Adobe now seem to allow you to download it FOC as it's pretty out of date. I've also (subject to it getting here) bought a 2nd hand book about CS2 on the advice of someone at our local phoo group, which has cost me a whole £2.81 including p&p. Once it arrives, I can start teaching myself....

As for the editing, I wasn't going to enter it anyway, as I don't think it's as good as the one of Churn Milk Joan! I posted it on here with reference to the other Calderdale landmarks, etc comment from longboard.

I started with CS2 as my first serious piece of editing software, it is more than powerful enough for an amateur starting out, get your head around the tools available and its up to you where you go next.

The important thing is to always remember its far better to get it as close as possible to being correct in camera than having to tweak laziness in developing later.

I started with CS2 as my first serious piece of editing software, it is more than powerful enough for an amateur starting out, get your head around the tools available and its up to you where you go next.

The important thing is to always remember its far better to get it as close as possible to being correct in camera than having to tweak laziness in developing later.

Exactly. The downside with CS2 is that it won't process raw files my camera, but I can still shoot raw, tweak them in the Nikon software then convert to jpeg to work on in CS2. Plus as you say, the more I work on my photography technique, the less I should need to tweak. Hence I'm planning on dragging myself of bed even earlier than tomorrow to walk back up to Stoodley Pike to get some photos in better light, hopefully!